This past week, Robert Morris shooting guard Karvel Anderson won his second NEC Choice Hotels Player of the Week award. Anderson paced the colonials to a perfect 2-0 weekend en route to their sixth straight win and second consecutive NEC regular season title. Anderson averaged 28.5 points, 4.0 rebounds, and 2.0 steals while shooting 21-37 (56.8 percent) from the field and 8-18 (44.4 percent) from three.
Anderson had a quiet start to Thursday's game against Long Island before exploding for 26 second half points, including nine in the final 1:10 of the game. The colonials came back from 16 down to defeat the Blackbirds by nine. Anderson picked up where he left off Saturday, going 10-14 from the field en route to 31 points and a one-point overtime victory. Ironically, Anderson's solid 8-18 overall mark from three brought down his three point shooting percentage.
There's not much more to say about Karvel at this point. We here at CTC already thought he was going to win NEC player of the year but there's no doubt that'll happen now after his huge weekend.
It's hard to put into perspective the season Karvel is having. KenPom statistics have him 11 in the country in offensive rating, 12 in effective field goal percentage, and 20 in true shooting percentage. If you don't know what that means, just know that it represents awesomeness.
The thing I really like about his game is how many wrinkles are thrown into it. Before, Karvel feasted off his pull-up elbow jumper and wing three from a handoff. Now we're seeing more step-back jumpers from the left side of the court (like the missed game winner in regulation of Saturday's game) and off the dribble three's from the top of the key.
--Chris Cappella
--@C_Cappell
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